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JAL JGC Club-A View - main card for most purchases, for accumulating JAL miles, holding JAL Global Club status, and for Suica/JRE purchases ANA Super Flyer's Wide Gold Mastercard - main card for iD payments, for accmulating ANA miles, holding ANA Super Flyer's status, and for Costco runs dCard Gold ...

Google Flights has been my go-to for comparing prices. As kawasemi mentioned, they acquired ITA Matrix awhile back, so it's powered off of that. I find it more user-friendly than ITA.

What Ben said, unfortunately... Tried this a few years ago, but both MUFJ and SMBC Nikko refused to use my alias (even though it would save them the headache of having to manage all 14 Katakana in my name).

Personally, I'm a fan of YNAB not automatically logging transactions from my accounts, since it forces me to do everything manually and be more cognizant of my purchases. Love the mobile experience, and have never had issues syncing between mobile and desktop. Being locked into the old $35 annual ra...

YNAB for me just to keep track of everything on a day-to-day basis (wallet, Suica, credit cards, US investment account), and then a separate spreadsheet just to keep track of percentage allocations in the investment account.

that brings me up to 85, and so I can potentially apply for PR once I can prove the patent has been under my name for at least one year. I'm just curious what the 1 year would be dated from. The priority claim? The filing date? The publication date? I'm thinking worst case scenario I submit my appl...

Curious if anyone here has applied for PR through the HSFP point system and claimed points for a patent. I was fortunate enough to work on a project last year whose output got patented. The priority claim was in February 2019, the actual patent was filed in February 2020, and the actual publication ...

No worries! Once your application is approved, you should get an email informing you of the Client Services number to call to get your online account setup. When I did that I think I had to be on hold for something like 45 minutes due to their reduced staffing, but otherwise no issues getting that d...

Quick question. If I were to use my US mailing address, would there be any real issues besides getting things mailed and such? I went through the application process back in July as a US citizen. I have my mailing address set to where I live in Japan, and I just have all my statements delivered ele...

I'm a little further south in Yokosuka, but it took about 6 weeks from the time I submitted online to the time that I got it. Hope you get yours soon!